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Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

it must be nice, imo

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Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

cinci zoo sniper posted:

i cant imagine myself, from a lurkers perspective, missing all the drat fuckbarrels and all the food

i am trying to decide whether it is us who are in the cave, or those free of the forums and their cultures

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

The negrotown and feminism threads were unironically better for having a mod unafraid to pass out sixers, and futhermore SA was never great.

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

stone cold posted:

nobody's been in there for years

except for.........the posting ghosts

tbh, that seems about right. that's gotta be something that kills you, at the very minimum on the inside

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

boner confessor posted:

cobb county is still white and lovely as ever but gwinnett is actually super racially mixed - it'll be majority minority by 2025 for sure

Interesting to know! I was a kid when I lived in Gwinett county (Near Duluth) but my area at least seemed pretty white, with the biggest minority populations being south and east-asian, but then again I was v middle class. That was a long time ago though, I suppose. Demographics can change fast.

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

boner confessor posted:

duluth has a substantial middle class korean population nowadays



cool! also: it is striking how much less dense the white majority areas are than any other demo (particularly the black majority areas) ! or am I misreading the map?

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

Pirate Radar posted:

Also lmao dickie spencer got punched, gj folks

For all the good it will do anyway


the best part is he got cold clocked again, after the cameras stopped rolling. i have nothing to back this up, but it just seems like it must be true, cause i would like it to be

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

les nazis et les collabos ne méritent qu'une morte vite.

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

Jerry Cotton posted:

In the USA, people drink tea with pineapple, cilantro, and tomato ketchup and look down upon people who don't.

this checks out

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

they did an "all lives matter" on the holocaust~

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

So like, we all agree that punching Nazis is good, but I would like to add some nuance to the discussion. Where do you draw the line?

Like, letting aside the actual nazis, things like deporting people to violent countries, making people with preexisting conditions uninsurable, and defunding access to women's health care, particularly abortive care, are things that kill people too, just a little less directly. I could see the argument for not directly assaulting a regular conservative, I guess, but what is the appropriate level of resistance? My first instinct an equally indirect violence, like catty bullying at work, or vagueblogging on facebook, but I am not very creative.

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

PupsOfWar posted:

nuanced discourse: is it best to punch nazis bareknuckled or with wrapping

Nah dude, this is basic poo poo. Protect yourself and learn how to throw a punch, and wrap correctly to protect your bones. That's not up for debate IMO. I'm asking what to do with the lesser fascist, the Little Eichmann, if you will

e: randler posits a good alternative strategy

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

fishmech posted:

i say a useful metric is "does this person still support donald trump after his first 13 days of being a complete fuckup in office" as the cutoff point for whether they need a punch.

dude just freaked out on japan at complete random lol

real talk: I am terrified and my meager savings are no longer earmarked for retirement (not that retirement was ever a realistic goal for a millennial working in education)

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

Randler posted:

This better not be the intro to one of those BFC "How can people survive on 2000/month?!" spiels. :club:

nah friend, im just a depressive :h:

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

mandatory lesbian posted:

left-libertarians are racist?

yeah that would be better if they changed it to "fed"

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

after years of stalled development and nepotism, it will be announced that wall has been made, to greatest success, more powerful than any other done before. the bricks started being laid when we first turned our hearts away from our fellow man

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

the wall was inside of us all along, we just made it real

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

Octatonic posted:

the wall was inside of us all along, we just made it real

*lights an L, somewhere in the distance laser pointers and the sounds of pink floyd start whirring to life*

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

Octatonic fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Mar 7, 2017

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

Yeah, Americans already spend the most in the world per capita on health care for absolutely abysmal results. Our infant mortality rates are worse than literally every European nation for instance. It gets even worse if you go state by state. Alabama's infant mortality rate, for instance, is compatible to that of Lebanon.

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

paranoid randroid posted:

i see yall are unfamiliar with Randler

I suppose I shouldn't get trolled but the state of healthcare in our stupid loving country gets me really worked up. Working education-related jobs is bad enough.

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010


this loving owns so much

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

Volkerball posted:

going to taco bell is better imo

you live what seems to me a joyless life, deprived of imagination, wonder, and the creative human spark

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010


what is your source. i need more of these

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010


i like this one, because the twist is that you bake a cake and then put too much chocolate sauce on it. so innovative and unexpected!!

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

it's just so pure. no pointlessly deconstructing a chili dog and then putting it back together, no rolling things for no reason, just, "bake a cake. put sauce on it". "you did it, champ!"

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

cinci zoo sniper posted:

i once accidentally replicated this recipe to an extent, backing chocolate cake with only top heat turned on :v:

actually that's basically how a lot of restaurant lava cakes are done. you underbake it in a molded pan, and so the center is undercooked and flows a bit

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

no matter how many people our powerful men kill, the world will go on without us, and that's beautiful too. i would love to see the world in the biological explosion a couple million or so years after the anthropocene extinction wraps up. that's generally what happens after mass extinctions after all. the new stuff would be wild

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

i just wanna see all the cool new niches and ecosystems that will form. like when all our crops go wild, producing like loving mad, and creating for at least a short time weird super calorie rich thickets, as wheat fields turn into super tall grasslands and bugs and migratory birds have the time of a generation. the empty buildings making dark growing spaces for moss and mushrooms and slime molds and holdfasts for vines. specialist organisms would probably crop up to digest them, like whale carcasses in the ocean

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

we live in a really cool planet, and life is really clever. the world is violent and scary and full of individual tragedy, but as a system, evolution is absolutely awe inspiring. there will be something after us for sure, and it'll be cooler than we can predict. there's something comforting about that to me, even as attached as i am to this whole "being a human" thing i'm doing. even as scared as i often am for and of my fellow humans. life will go on and it will be strange and awesome in its own way

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

Berke Negri posted:

this is nice but dying sucks for most people

dying sucks for everyone, and yeah. i don't want it to happen, but it will, for all of us, and for our species one day or another. until then we're very much obligated to make all of our times better than they are. i want to live to see a world where we're kinder to each other, and help better, and maybe even to see full communism, but it's nice to imagine that even as the void cosumes us personally, there will still be cool stuff on earth for another billion years or so

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

exmarx posted:

readign a book





i lold

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

well, it's on brand at least

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

Extensive Vamping posted:

In all seriousness though I think dying is going to be hella awesome to experience. I don't even see the point of seeking any other experience.

try psychedellics if you want a sneak peak. your ego at least might die

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

So I was reading the USPOL Thunderdome, because I wanted to self - harm, I guess, then I had the realisation that not a single poster in that thread can read. It's quite a thing, I gotta say

e: the worst part is I'm probably stupid enough to forget this and try again in a week or so

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010


i feel like i need to go take a shower and then like hide under a million blankets with the lights on. that poo poo is loving chilling

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

mandatory lesbian posted:

in star fox 64 you can do a barrel roll

its an aileron roll
:goonsay:

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

*runs around making airplane noises*

Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

Raskolnikov38 posted:

as someone that just got out of teaching 8th graders for 3 hours, these kids neither know nor give a gently caress about the protests

maybe not but i thought i was hot poo poo for staying seated for the pledge back when i was in 8th grade. gently caress bush forever

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Octatonic
Sep 7, 2010

Raskolnikov38 posted:

yeah but those aren't 8th graders, they're like 4th grade at best. i was more reflecting how on they're all just goofing off

fair enough. i wasn't really looking at the picture more, that you mentioned 8th graders in your post. even if they're just loving around imo, it ain't a bad thing to show insufficient reverence to the flag

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